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21 January 2006

21st Century Computing A look into the future of technology from a 1989 issue of Compute! Magazine. I couldn't get past the first sentance without literally laughing out loud.

post by: puke & cry at: 10:18 | 3 comments

"A dozen credit cards and notes and car insurance information. I'd want something the size of or smaller than a wallet, and all that information available to me. You could call it a smart wallet."

That's some creative naming right there.

posted by cmonkey 21 January | 11:27

Heh. Interesting how they vastly underestimated some things (storage size, screen rez, teh intarweb).

posted by porpoise 21 January | 12:54

And vastly overestimated: we weren't close to 30GB erasable media in 2001. We might get it by 2010. Wall screens, voice interfaces and the like are still "ten years" away.

But for some details, the stuff about telecom is basically correct. They even perdict a kind of RSS.

posted by bonehead 21 January | 13:00

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